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Great Gatsby Movie Vs Book

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Comparing and Contrasting The Great Gatsby Novel to The Movie (1974)

There are many differences in movies based on books and The Great Gatsby is a good example. Many movies are not good as the books because certain details or even characters have been left out. In some cases the characters are in the movie but not portrayed as they are in the book or certain scenes are apart of the movie but not in the right order. The Great Gatsby movie and novel differ in many ways, certain scenes and people have been taken out but the main idea is still there.
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The characters in The Great Gatsby do not live up to the ones in the book. Dan Cody was erased completely from the movie which was odd considering the fact that he was the one who had sculpted Gatsby's attitude, taught him to be proper, and how to present himself. The backstory of Dan Cody also enlightened the readers on how Gatsby was responsible for making sure he did not get too messy when he was drunk, which leads to Gatsby refraining from alcohol since he had personally seen the effects of it. Even though Dan cody played a big part in the development of Gatsby, he is not the only person that was left out. Owl eyes was also left out …show more content…

The whole perspective was changed, in the book Nick is telling the story, he is present in every scene and narrates as he remembers or retells stories someone else told him but he is the source of the whole plot while in the movie he is not seen as an important character even though the whole book was him writing about his past. Even the most important part of the book- when gatsby meets nick- s different from the book. When Nick meets Gatsby in the book he does not even realize that he is talking to the host of the party, aka gatsby, and in the movie he calls nick specifically to talk to him, like how he did in the book when he called for

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Daniel Aguirre Ms. Tobias English III GT - 6th 12 January 2017 After analyzing both the movie and the novel, I have discovered similarities and differences. Ill try to compare and contrast the two since the movie does not depict the story exactly as how the novel does. Similarities There were still some similarities in the film that tied back to the book. One of the main ones is when Nick walks to Gatsby’s backyard and finds him standing at the edge of his dock reaching out to what was a green light.

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The book and the 1974 Great Gatsby and the 2013 Great Gatsby they are very the same nothing has changed . Everything in the book was just exactly like the movie . The only thing that got to me in the 2013 Great Gatsby movie was the music. The music had 2012 songs like Jay z , Kanye and Beyoncé which I thought was funny because they wasn't born in the 1920’s . What I got from reading the book and watching the two movies was

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Isabella Talamantez Ms. Tobias English III- 6th 12 January 2017 The Great Gatsby, Compared and Contrasted The Great Gatsby is a popular book written by F. Scott Fitzgerald in the 1920s. Much later it was adapted into a movie that is a topic of debate because of its similarities and differences. While they both have the same storyline of a poor farmer’s son rising to riches with the aspiration of getting his dream girl, the book and movie have variations concerning details such as the materialistics and relationships.

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In The Great Gatsby movie, Daisy, for example mostly spoke sweetly throughout the whole movie. In the book, her voice was described as ringing like money. Instead, in the movie she appeared to be an innocent person but was actually extraordinary selfish in her own actions. In the movie, Jay Gatsby had a violent, dramatic outburst at the Plaza Hotel when he was provoked by Tom Buchanan. Another difference would be that Jordan Baker and Nick Carraway did NOT have a loving relationship like in the book; they didn’t communicate in the movie as much as they did in the movie.

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The first reason why the movie is a more effective work of art is because it gives us a better understanding of what is happening. The one point that stuck out the most in the book was at the end when Jay Gatsby was killed. It was confusing because it was

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By knowing the new movie by heart, the older film was painfully long and not played in the same order as the current Gatsby or book. The original film skipped around and extended parts not seen before to movie watchers. It focused on the suicide more than the killing of Myrtle. Another big part of the story line is Nick narrates the story through his journal as in he is writing this novel.

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It has a lot of similar aspects such as Gatsby being head over heels for daisy and Leo Dicaprio plays a fantastic role expressing the emotions that Gatsby feels in the book; especially in the scene where toms investigation leads to confrontation at the Plaza in chapter 7 when tom points out Gatsby’s facade and predicts that he will be unable to care for Daisy if his life has been a

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However, in the Leonardo Decaprio version, the audience feels more empathetic for Nick, because the director reveals that Nick had a hard time with what happened to Gatsby so much so that he needed to go to a psychiatric hospital to talk to a doctor to help him with that pain. This is impactful because, in the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby, the director chose to follow the same timeline as the book while the 2013 version of The Great Gatsby opened up with a flashing green light, being foggy out, and making its way to the psychiatric hospital where you can see Nick talking to the doctor. The 1974 version does not show you everything that happened in full aspect of what happened to Nick, while the 2013 version opens up to what had happened to Nick after Gatsby died. In addition, the director opts to use a modern style of music but it still feels like it came from the Roaring 20s rather than having Roaring 20s music like the 1974 version of The Great Gatsby. This is impactful because the modern music helps the audience feel like they are related to the story.

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In many pieces of fiction, the audience would generally focus on the main character but for The Great Gatsby, the side character, Jay Gatsby, is more interesting and entertaining than the main character for a variety of reasons. Jay Gatsby is an eccentric character whose mindset permanently affects his life in dismissive and outstanding ways. This American Dream is a way of living for him as he thinks it’s not interesting without certain prospects. F. Scott Fitzgerald introduces Gatsby as a cause of all things that are happening due to his utopian view on life. This view has led to negative and positive consequences to occur in a lot of characters' lives because Gatsby won’t stop these thoughts unless they actually come to fruition.

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The movie version of The Great Gatsby and the novel had few minor changes. The setting of the movie and book were the same Long Island, New York. The character that was left out from the movie was Dan Cody, Gatsby’s made up millionaire. One of the biggest change I saw in the movie was that Gatsby never revealed his real name to Nick, while in the book he tells Nick that his name is James Gats. Also, in the movie when Gatsby invites Nick, he assumed that he meant Gatsby, as seen in the book Nick talks to Gatsby but doesn’t know that his talking to Gatsby.

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For starters, there are similarities between the book and the movie. For the most part the the movie is very accurate with portraying all the symbolism that was portrayed in the novel. This includes the scene where we are first introduced to Jordan Baker and Daisy Buchanan, who are both wearing white and in a room filled with flowing white curtains just like in chapter one of “The Great Gatsby.” The color white in both the novel and film is supposed to represent innocence. There is also the green light at the end of Daisy’s dock that Gatsby reaches out to that represents his dream.

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While filming a novel, there are some key factors which are not supposed to be changed i.e. general appearance of the characters and the time span. In the movie, they changed both things in one way or another. First thing that was different from the novel was the starting. In the novel, they followed the same flashback trend which is being followed by a lot of movies nowadays. They start the movie by showing the Nick as a person who is trying to recover from the highly drinking and sad life after the pitiable death of Gatsby while in the book, Nick said that he had drunk only two times in his life while in the 2013 movie, they portrayed him as if he had been drinking a lot and now had come to a doctor to recover.

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My interest in this book began after I went on a class trip to a college. My class went there to watch a play, which happened to be The Great Gatsby. When I watched the play, my interest was peaked. The plot and characters of The Great Gatsby made me want to read the book to compare and contrast. However, that didn’t happen until this summer reading assignment came up.

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This importance is noted as showing that throughout the book you see dishonesty cheating lying yet in the end there's a glimmer of hope that at least one person still has good characteristics which is portrayed through the owl-eyes man. This detail probably goes overlooked by many and might not be missed in the movie but without I think doesn't rap up the bitter story with more of a bittersweet ending showing at least person is good in this

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The Great Gatsby was precisely effective throughout the film through the characters, the themes and the scenes. Baz Luhrmann’s cast selection was excellent and extremely brought the movie to life, and still adapted to the novel. Leonardo DiCaprio and other star characters made the novel come straight to life and they all acted sensationally well, from the star to the background people. They brought excitement to the film and gave us great images to

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